To:HIS SISTER MARIA

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HerExcellency Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova,Pavlovskaya Street, 6, Apt. 16,Peterburgskaya Storona,St. Petersburg,Russia

February 7, 1908

DearManyasha,

Ihave received your letter of January 20, a letter from
the young writer on the same subject, and today I receivedRech.[2]I am very, very grateful for the newspaper, the
article is really extremely interesting!

Withregard to Webb—I have written to the young
writer and have sent him something in the nature of power
of attorney. In any case I repeat (1) I do not know how
many copies of the first edition there were; (2) Struve was
the manager of the editorial office at that time and he edited
the first volume; (3) the second volume was translated by
Y. Smirnov (Gurevich). I then received 20 rubles for a
printer’s signature for the translation of the first volume and
10 rubles a signature for editing the second. Let the young
writer haggle—if need be, let him go down to a half of that,
provided the contract is concluded for a definite number
of copies.

YesterdayI also received a letter from a colleague about
Granat. Things are working out quite well for me there.

Asregards our marriage lines and the palm oil wanted
in Krasnoyarsk, I propose that you should not take too
much trouble or give any large quantity of palm oil. It
looks as if we shall manage without it.

Ina month,if not sooner, we intend to set up our own
apartment here.

Withregard to the symposium in memory of Marx, it
does not seem likely that I shall take part in it, either;
such things cannot be written in a
hurry.[3]

Ourpeople are taking a surprisingly long time to get
well! It’s too bad. The influenza this year must be
particularly malignant, or else you are having very bad weather.
Write and tell me how Mother is.

Ihave not yet fully settled down here—for instance,
I have not yet joined my “club”, where it is convenient
to read periodicals and easy to obtain new
books.[4]I
shall try (as soon as I have joined—probably in a day or
two) to find whatever I can for you to translate. Do you
receiveNeue Zeit? In the science supplement to No. 1 there
is an article by Kautsky “Nationalität und
Internationalist”. I have not yet seen it. Is it not suitable for
translation? I have read Kautsky’sSozialismus und
Kolonialpolitik(a new pamphlet of 80 pages). I think it would be
permitted. Talk to
Zerno[1][5]about it; it would be a good thing
to translate it. I am also surprised that no announcement
is to be seen of a translation of Parvus’sKolonialpolitik und
Zusammenbruch. Has no one any initiative? AskZerno.
I could get in touch with the author here, abroad.

Allthe best, kiss Mother for me.Yours,V. Ulyanov

P.S.I have not received Bench’sSelected Works.

Ofthe trade union journals I have receivedGudokandTekstilnoye delo. In future please sendallsuch
publications.

[1]Pleaseask them at the same time whether I may send new thingsfor youtotheiraddress, things thatmay besuitable for translation.—Lenin

[2]Rech(Speech)—organ of the   Constitutional-Democratic (Cadet)
Party published daily in St. Petersburg. Lenin probably referred
toRechNo. 12 of January 15 (28), 1908, which carried an article
entitled   “Resolution   of   the   Baku   Social-Democrats   Against
Expropriation and Terror”.

[3]Leninnevertheless wrote an article for the symposiumKarl Marx
(1818–1883), entitled “Marxism and Revisionism” (seeCollected
Works, Vol. 15, pp. 29–39).

[4]Theclub referred to is theSociété de lecture(Reading Society)
in Geneva; to work in the reading-room it was necessary to be a
member of it and pay a certain fee. Lenin had worked there in
1904–05, before he left for Russia.

[5]Zerno(Grain or The Seed) was a publishing house headed by
M. S. Kedrov; in 1907 it launched the publication of a collection
of Lenin’s works under the general title ofTwelve Years. It was
planned as a three-volume edition but only the first volume and
Part I of the second appeared. Volume I appeared in November
1907 (the date on the cover was 1908) and was confiscated soon
after its appearance, although a large part of this first printing
was saved and was distributed illegally.

Zernopublished a symposium on the twenty-fifth anniversary
of Marx’s death and theKalendar dlya vsekh(Calendar for All)
for 1908, which carried Lenin’s article “The International
Socialist Congress in Stuttgart” (seeCollected Works, Vol. 13, pp. 82-
93).